[ExI] who should white shoot?

[Lee Corbin]

Spike writes

> Besides that I don't get insulted easily.  {8^D
> Stuart is not one who insults in any case.

Lucky you. I am trying to be insulted by your boasting, but
so far, no luck.  :-)

> Actually I mighta been more capable of solving this kind of problem in high
> school than I am now.  Sad, ja?  

You ain't seen nothin' yet. Now most people cannot "see" proportions
and ratios as well as they did when they were in college, but that's
simply because they don't "stay in shape", i.e., don't keep in practice.

Yet I do "stay in shape". I'm into rudimentary math just as much as
I was in high school or college, and that's been a constant throughout
my life. And, incredibly sadly,  I know for a *fact* that I cannot
"see" them as well as I did once. 

My rate of making algebra mistakes also has risen steadily since age 35
or so, and who knows?, perhaps even before that (but covered
over by my overall greater knowledge of how to use my brain, 
i.e. what intelligence I have).

But the worst problem, by far, is the short term memory decline.
I used to be able to look at a line of code on one screen, switch
to a different monitor or different window, and reproduce it.
No more. 

WHEN IS THE FETAL BRAIN TISSUE GOING TO BE
READY???   I AM SICK AND TIRED OF WAITING!

> Is this a cool problem or what?

Oh, yes it is. One could hardly have guessed the right answer
(which I don't remember, but which I infer from glancing at
the posts, is to shoot in the air---unless you are *so* bad a
shot that, as Jeff points out, you're sure to miss even that.)

Lee